Do You Remember These 7 Pop Songs From The Early 2000s? We're So Sorry
Pop music gets its name because it is short for "popular," as in, pop music is popular. Why is pop music is so popular? Well, everyone from "tweens" to adults just listen to whatever the radio decides is worth three to five minutes of your time. Then, the industry find about three to five of those tracks and puts them on repeat across stations, across the nation.
That's what pop music is and how it gets made to be popular, but society should be ashamed we allowed these tracks to reach that point.
"Life goes by // Who knows why?"
Well, Ms. Duff, I think I know why: it's because "I [couldn't] wait" for this song to stop blaring through my FM speakers and I just had to become a shell of myself until this very moment when I'm not able to look back upon the day this song was popular and try to decipher what went wrong with society. Now I know, it was this song.
2. "BareNaked" – Jennifer Love Hewitt
Okay, well played, the industry: you knew a song with this title sung by Jennifer Love Hewitt would be a massive hit just because of the innuendo. Although, I must say:
"I just can't take it // I'm getting jaded" thinking back about this atrocity in music.
3. "Breath" – Michelle Branch
"And I take it just a little bit // I, hold my breath and count to ten"
Unfortunately, that is not true about trying to listen to this song. Counting slowly does you know good, and even taking it "just a little bit" is unbearable. The fact is, "If I jsut breathe" I'll feel alive and have to remember this song existed and was popular.
4. "Over" – Lindsay Lohan
"Tell me that it's over // Over //Honestly tell me"
Yes, those are the lyrics, and when I heard this song back in the early 2000s, that was all I could think about: "Tell me that it's over, honestly, tell me" that this horrid song is over. Please, I'm begging you!
"Time will not flee //Can you see?"
Thank goodness that isn't true, and we were able to flee from the time in which this song was so wildly popular we couldn't escape it.
6. "Low" – Kelly Clarkson
"Everybody's talking // But they don't say a thing // They look at me with sad eyes // But I don't want their sympathy // It's cool you didn't want me"
Well, I'm talking and I am going to say "a thing" and it's that this song was inescapable and I'm sad to say I was a part of a society that allowed this to happen. Is it cool that I didn't want you? I guess not because there were plenty more pop hits to come!
"Somebody listen please // It used to be so hard being me"
Oh, really?! What was hard was "living in the shadows" until this song stopped pulsating out of stereos everywhere I went while this song was making the pop music rounds. Thanks a lot for that, because let me tell you: "It used to be so hard being me" during the height of this song's popularity.
7. "Crush" – Mandy Moore
"You know, I'm the one that you can talk to // Sometimes you tell me things that I don't want to know"
Here's something you might not have known, Ms. Moore: when this song came out, "I wish[ed] I could tell somebody, but there's no one to talk to, nobody [knew]" just how much I did not want to hear this song anymore. Now you know.
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For more information about music we as a society messed up on, review the "9 Rock Songs From 2003 We Should Collectively Be Embarrassed Were Able To Become Popular."